Archives & Library Special Collections
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Call Number: V1978.024
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, 7 items in one folder.
The Stereoscope views of Brooklyn collection is comprised of seven black-and-white stereographs documenting the built environment in Brooklyn, as well as several interior views of a home, circa 1865 to 1915. The collection includes two interior views of a home in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, located at 136 Joralemon Street. Also included is a view of Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights, a view of the statue of Henry Ward Beecher located in Borough Hall Park, a view of a drinking fountain in Prospect Park, an aerial view taken from the top of the 22-story World Building in Brooklyn looking down the Brooklyn Bridge across the East River at the cityscape of Manhattan, and a view looking down the length of the Iron Pier at Coney Island.
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, structures, etc. — Pictorial works
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) — Pictorial works
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Aerial photographs
- Dwellings — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Exterior views
- Interior views
- Photographs
- Stereographs
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Call Number: V1988.012
Extent: 0.42 Linear feet, in one manuscript box.
The Otto Dreschmeyer Brooklyn slides date from 1965 to 1968 and contain 157 items. The collection is composed entirely of color slides taken by Dreschmeyer in Brooklyn, likely using a Hasselblad camera. Slides dated 1965 document the annual Brooklyn Memorial Day parade. Parade images center around Grand Army Plaza, showing the crowds near the Brooklyn Public Library main branch and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, along with parade marchers on Eastern Parkway. Several slides show the John F. Kennedy Memorial at Grand Army Plaza around the time of its unveiling. Slides of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens are also included.
Later images in the collection feature docks and beach scenes from Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island in Brooklyn, and Rockaway Point in Queens. Coney Island scenes document the boardwalk and associated attractions such as the Cyclone, Wonder Wheel, and Parachute Jump. Views of Coney Island from the ocean, as well as night views and fireworks displays are also included. Lastly, the collection contains views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor from Brooklyn, including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, South Ferry in Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry.
Otto Dreschmeyer (1896-1983) was a resident of the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens.
Names:
- Dreschmeyer, Otto
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Staten Island Ferry
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Eastern Parkway (New York, N.Y.)
- Grand Army Plaza (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Beaches — New York (State) — New York
- Docks — New York (State) — New York
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Fireworks — New York (State) — New York
- Parades — New York (State) — New York
- Recreation — New York (State) — New York
- Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch (New York, N.Y.)
Types of material:
- Color slides
- Photographs
- Slides (photographs)
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Call Number: ARC.279
Extent: 0.8 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The Terhune and Wyckoff families papers (1747-1932) include documents of two prominent families, affiliated through marriage, from Gravesend in Kings County, New York (part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn after 1898). John Terhune (1767-1842) played a significant role in the early development of Coney Island as a resort location, and the collection includes some documents on that subject and on a dispute over whether to incorporate the town of Gravesend. The bulk of the collection, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and likely compiled principally in connection with the administration of the estates of various Terhunes and Wyckoffs, includes bills, receipts, promissory notes, inventories, deeds, indentures, court filings, and other financial and legal documents. The collection holds several individual items of interest, including two letters commenting on the use of personal slanders as a tactic in political campaigns, a document related to the founding of the Agricultural Society of Kings County, six cartes-de-visite, bills of sale and a will referring to enslaved African-Americans, indentured servitude agreements, and a promissory note (1796) from Aaron Burr to Albert Terhune. Other names of Gravesend residents appearing frequently in the collection include Bennet, Emmans, Lake, Lott, Ryder, and Stillwell.
Names:
- Terhune family
- Emmans family
- Lott family
- Stillwell family
- Terhune, Albert
- Terhune, John
- Wyckoff family
- Coney Island House (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend and Coney Island Bridge and Road Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — Genealogy
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Court records — New York (State) — Kings County
- Executors and administrators — New York — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Indentured servants — New York (State) — New York
- Inventories of decedents’ estates — New York (State) — New York
- Legal documents — New York (State) — Kings County
- Locomotive engineers
- Public officers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroads — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Promissory notes
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Tax records
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Martin Fishman photographs, 1989 – 2009, 113 photographs (.25 linear foot)
Paula Fishman donated 113 photographs by the late Martin Fishman to the photography collection in 2010. The photographs are 8″x10″ and 8.5″x11″ black and white prints of photographs taken of Coney Island over the previous two decades. Some of the photographs capture events such as the annual Mermaid Parade.
Martin Fishman grew up on the Lower East Side and in Brighton Beach, and spent childhood summers in Coney Island. While attending Baruch College and later working as a caseworker for the City of New York, he pursued his passion for freelance photography. Most of his photography captures street scenes and people in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was also known for his photographs of Quentin Crisp, some of which can be seen at Crisperanto.org. Fishman’s work has been published in Time Out New York and the New York Times, among other publications.
To access the Martin Fishman photographs, please visit the library.
 Lucille Fornasieri Gold Photograph Collection, 1968 – 2008, bulk 1973 – 1985, 93 photographs (.1 linear foot)
V2008.013
Lucille Fornasieri Gold donated 93 images to the photography collection in 2008. The images were donated as digital files as well as prints. The negatives had been scanned and retouched by the photographer for enhancement and to rectify degradation of the images.
Lucille Fornasieri Gold started photographing with a Leica ca. 1969, while her children were in school. She would develop and print in her kitchen darkroom of her Park Slope home. When she moved, she lost her darkroom and the negatives were processed, but remained unprinted for years. In the 1990s, she and her husband scanned the negatives and modified the images using Adobe Photoshop.
The photographs in this collection are street scenes and people in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Coney Island, and others, as well as Prospect Park in Brooklyn. There are also photographs of several Manhattan neighborhoods, primarily the Lower East Side. The subject matter of the photographs includes animals, twins, elderly people, and cityscapes.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 20th century
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Photographs
- Documentary Photographs
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Call Number: ARC.001
Extent: 2.5 Linear feet, in 3 manuscript boxes and 1 oversized flat box
This collection of papers contains historical documents created by the descendants of early English and Dutch settlers in colonial New Amsterdam. The Bennets, Lakes, Stillwells and Van Sicklens were English families who lived in the Netherlands and then emigrated to New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. William Adrianse Bennet settled Gowanus for the Dutch in 1636, while Jan Lake, Nicholas Stillwell and Dutchman Fernandus Van Sicklen were part of the group that settled the English town of Gravesend with Lady Deborah Moody in 1643. Both of these areas are now part of Brooklyn, New York. The collection is divided into three series. The first series contains the papers of descendants of the Bennets and Ryders; the second series contains the papers of the descendants of the Lake, Stillwell and Van Sicklen families; and the third series contains photographs and postcards of the Bennett, Ryder, Vorhis, and Valentine families. Photographs of family members from the Van Cleef and Sillwell families are also included in series three. The documents, the majority of which are wills, deeds and indentures, were created from 1670-1915; the photographs range from the 1870s to 1979.
Names:
- Bennet, Cornelius W., ca. 1776-ca. 1852
- Bennet, Gitty, b. ca. 1774
- Bennet, Willem Willemse, ca. 1639-ca. 1694
- Bennet, Willem
- Bennet, Winant, 1740-1816
- Bennett, Edward, b. ca. 1863
- Bennett, Ellen, 1818-1894
- Bennett, Elley May Ryder
- Bennett, Gertrude Ryder
- Brown, Abraham, b. ca. 1802
- Lake, Coert, 1760-1846
- Lake, Court D., 1788-1874
- Lake, Daniel, 1696-1776
- Lake, Daniel, 1783-1827
- Lake, Derrick, 1765-1832
- Ryder, Charles M., 1844-1917
- Ryder, Gertrude M., 1844-1916
- Stillwell, Jaques, fl. 1805
- Stillwell, Nicholas, 1709-1781
- Vanderbilt, Aaron
- Williams, Gertrude Ryder Bennett
- Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Bennet, Wynant, ca. 1716-ca. 1768
- Lake, Derick, ca. 1720-ca. 1800
- Stillwell, Jaques I., 1801-ca. 1863
- Stillwell, Jaques J., 1827-1884
- Van Sicklen, Ferdinand, ca. 1801-1849
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gowanus (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Types of material:
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Indentures
- Legal documents
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Receipts (financial records)
- Wills
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